[comp.text] Absolute positioning in TeX

little@odin.ucsd.edu (Glenn Little) (12/10/88)

  I am looking for a way to temporarily move to an absolute position on
  the page, print an hbox or vbox, then go back to where I was
  originally.  Is this possible?  Is there a way to do it that would work
  in both LaTeX and TeX?  I am hoping to use this capability in conjunction
  with psfigtex and a postscript bitmap to print letterheads on
  documents.  I need to be able to get way up near the upper left corner
  of the page, outside of the normal margins.  Is there a way to tell
  \psfig to print at an absolute position?

  Barring the above, is there a way to get the current position in TeX
  and LaTeX?  Then maybe I can do a relative move to where I need to go.
  I can't seem to find what I'm looking for in either the TeX or LaTeX book, 
  and hope someone can point me to the relevant pages.

  Thanks.

		Glenn Little
		little%cs@ucsd.edu

langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Bruce Langdon) (12/11/88)

In article <5651@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, little@odin.ucsd.edu (Glenn Little) writes:
> 
>   I am looking for a way to temporarily move to an absolute position on
>   the page, print an hbox or vbox, then go back to where I was...

p. 389 shows how to put things relative to the current position.
When a headline or footline token list is expanded, you know where you are
on the page.
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